Want to thank everyone publicly for an amazing event. I returned with 195 short video segments that I put up online as a single sped-up piece. Unfortunately the resolution leaves a lot to be desired - the work needs to be seen in its full two-gigabyte version and that’s pretty much impossible.
I particularly liked the Medical Museum setting; the show there, curated by Martha Fleming, fit in perfectly with the work we were presenting - I think particularly mine, which deals with the “abject” of avatars, their fictitious internal physiology - this was mirrored by the anatomical specimens, wax and wood, also internally emptied, full of vacuous substance. I only regret that Lance and I, and by proxy, Gaz, were not able to spend a longer period of time in Copenhagen - I felt we were just beginning to dialog with people. The best forms of production include long-term discussions, resonances; if I do get back to Cphn, I’d love to see what others are doing as well! Sachiko sent URLs of her work, which is terrific - I hope other people we met can also exchange them.
Again, thanks so much for everything!
love Alan
I agree with you Alan. It would have been great to add a workshop on a different day to have the chance for more discussion. You alone could have talked for hours
Also the question of the use of machinima in virtual art could have been developed more. That said, I found it a great trip.
Lance/Juria
Dear Alan,
I participated in the event at Medical Museion. I am an Art Historian with speciel interest in digital art and virtual Worlds. I am writing an article about the differences in yours and Lance’s work, that might interest you, but I need some information. There for I hope you can reply on the following:
Can I have a copy of one of the photos from the Vitual Environments Lab? I would very much like a photo of the two dancers in the lab, wearing the sensors.
Who made the machinima What Remains: Alan Sondheim and? Azure Carter (partner?)
Performance by the two dancers Foofwa d’Imobilite and Maud Liardon?
Who did the dance choreography?
Music and singing by Azure Carter?
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_ueR8XTT9M)
I find these informations important and very interesting in the understanding of What Remains.
I hope that I will be able to come up with a discussion that you and Lance will find interesting.
Greetings Sofie
Hi Sofie, and really apologies for writing so late. If you still want a photo, etc., please write to me at sondheim@panix.com - I did the Machinima video/editing; the voice and song is Azure Carter’s, and the original performance might have been Foofwa d’Imobilite and Kira Sedlock (not really sure - the motion capture files aren’t ’signed’ by the performers.
With Foofwa and Maud, that would have been in the Alps; Foofwa’s choreography is based here on my avatar work, and we all worked on the mise en scene; I did the video. Foofwa choreographed, Maud follows suit with some improvisation as well.
Hope this answers! - Alan
Oh by the way, the current issue of Canadian Art has a review I wrote of the show at the Medical Museum - it was instigated by Martha Fleming, who I knew from Canada. The show was brilliant!